I am now on project 3 of 4 for my Game Dev I class, and this is my last solo project. My game is a Schmup titled "Forsaken Galaxy"

The main gimmick for the game is that you get to design your own ship to fight with, sort of like Fraxy but in reverse.

I've been working my butt off trying to create an editor that will allow players to create really cool ships, and I've uploaded what I have so far. Barring any really awesome suggestions or really terrible bugs, this part of the game is done and done.

The game is officially due tomorrow at midnight, but at this rate I'm going to have to turn it in one day late. Oh well, it'll still blow all of the other games out of the water ;)

Also, in case you missed it, check out my second project:

Paradigm is another Action game, this time where you play a tank and get to blast/run stuff over >:)
It's good for a fun 10 minute or so distraction.

Anywho, hopefully when we start the 4th project, which is a group project, I'll have enough free time to get back to BYOND and finish off Breach, and then start working on a pixel-based game. A little 4-player action/adventure game ala Gauntlet legends would be awesome with the new net code. Maybe I can convert Iron Reaper (which was ironically specifically designed to work around the network limitations)

Forsaken Galaxy looks interesting and I will surely check it out when I have time.

Before the 463 release, I was working with a concept that included pixel movement and similar to Gauntlet. Of course, that idea never fully formed, but I would definitely play Iron Reaper: Gauntlet-like.

also, when i loaded the default example ships, each one visually overlapped the other. once i had loaded all 4 ships once, the ship just looked like a giant messy amalgam of pieces thrown on top of each other. (but the parts list on the list was always correct, i didn't see any overlapping)

Forsaken Galaxy looks interesting and I will surely check it out when I have time.

Thanks. With any luck, the "full" beta version should be out within the next day or two :)

Before the 463 release, I was working with a concept that included pixel movement and similar to Gauntlet. Of course, that idea never fully formed, but I would definitely play Iron Reaper: Gauntlet-like.

If handled right, I think a small co-op game could flourish on BYOND. It would probably need a good method of dynamically generating content to keep it interesting over multiple plays.

Not yet. In the full version, you'll be given a set amount of money to spend to initially create your ship. You'll then earn more money during the game, and be able to return to the ship yard to upgrade your ship or buy a new one.

also, when i loaded the default example ships, each one visually overlapped the other. once i had loaded all 4 ships once, the ship just looked like a giant messy amalgam of pieces thrown on top of each other. (but the parts list on the list was always correct, i didn't see any overlapping)

Yea, they're just loaded right on top of the current ship. I couldn't decide if there would ever be a situation where someone wanted to merge ships, so I left it like that. I guess it's a bit unexpected. Also, you can scroll through the left-hand-side Parts List with the Page Up and Page Down keys. Someone else suggested I add buttons for that to make it more obvious that it's a scrolling list. (I also accidentally left it out of the help file!)